Faith and the Professions

by Thomas L. Shaffer

Thomas L. Shaffer argues that the morals of modern American lawyers and doctors have been corrupted by misguided professionalism and weak philosophy. He shows that professional codes exalt vocational principle over the traditional morals of character; but that, in practice, America's professionals and business people cultivate the ethics of character. The ethics of virtue have been neglected. The ethical argument in Faith and the Professions is in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887065619
• ISBN13: 9780887065613
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.